He and two others, Igor Sporyshev and Victor Podobnyy, are charged with trying to recruit female college students in New York to gather intel as replacements for sexy spy Anna Chapman, who was deported.

Sporyshev was caught complaining on tape about how he was not up to the task of recruiting the next Chapman because when it came to today’s young women, “in order to be close, you either need to f- -k them or use other levers to influence them to execute my requests.”

Prosecutors also say the spy ring worked with the Kremlin-run TASS News Agency to ferret secret information from US stock market officials.

The FBI secretly recorded hours of conversations between the alleged spies from January to May 2013 by hiding recorders in binders stuffed with supposed “sensitive and confidential” materials and handed over to Sporyshev for review, according to court papers filed by prosecutors earlier this week.

The recordings “make clear that Sporyshev and Podobnyy, as well as others, were operating as SVR officers by receiving taskings from Moscow, gathering responsive information, and sending it back to SVR headquarters,” the filing says.

On the tapes, Podobnyy allegedly complained about his work, saying he thought it “would be slightly more down to earth than in the movies about James Bond,” court papers say.